Bitconnect tells you something? I fully understand how bitcoin, ethereum, monero... work, but no matter how hard I try to collect info about the XRP mechanism I always end in meaningless and useless docs. I wouldn't invest one cent in projects like BCH or ETC even if I followed their evolution from the beginnnig. Let alone if I would invest in something that I don't understand. ONE Golden Rule: if you can't understand something it means someone has made you can't understand it on purpose. Stay away from it.

Bitcoin and Bitmain are not synonyms. Bitmain tried hard to make appear it so. I hope 2019 is positive for crypto and I couldn't care less what end will make Bitmain and Bitcoin cash or whatever they called it of course.

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Firing 50% of a company's workforce is a strong sign that company is facing imminent bankruptcy at least you see this with eyes of an incurable optimist.

You are very optimistic. Maybe too much  Bitcoin reached 20.000$ when Bitmain was starting to impose itself as the only dominator on the crypto-hardware market. Now that Bitmain finally holds the hashpower monopoly Bitcoin is worth 3.500$. How come?  Be honest and admit that you known in your heart that Bitmain is doomed. 

The competition is not between ABC and SV but Bitcoin and Bitmain.
The Bitcoin promise is a true worldwide decentralization that no one can control. Bitmain tried to break this rule reaching alone the 51% Bitcoin hashpower therefore compromising the network. This is why the Bitcoin's price is dropping. The only thing that gave Bitcoin it's value doesn't exist anymore thanks to a single company. Paradoxically Bitmain for saving itself is waiting for something that will never happen, the rise of Bitcoin price. It will happen eventually when Bitmain will be dead, only then the market will trust in the Bitcoin's neutrality. It seams that Bitmain broke a law of nature that kills you if you try to break it. The longer and the lower the Bitcoin price will stay the bigger the cleanup of the Bitcoin ecosystem will be.